The Next Web Conference: Speakers
Future of the Web
The Next Web is about the vision for the future of the web. We've great speakers who'll share their vision with you. This conference has become one of the best networking events in Europe.
This year we'll have 4 speaker formats. We have Keynote speakers, Startup demos, Pecha Kucha style presentations of attendees and Twords (twitter words).
"One of the best conferences I've been to in years" -- Paul Kane, BskyB
Keynote Speakers
Jeff JarvisJeff blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York's new Graduate School of Journalism. He writes a new media column for The Guardian and wrote the highly anticipated new book "What Would Google Do" |
Bradley HorowitzVP Product Management at Google. Bradley oversees product management for Google Apps, including Gmail, Calendar, Google Talk, Google Voice, Google Docs, Blogger and Picasa. Before joining Google, Bradley led Yahoo's advanced development division, which developed new products such as Yahoo! Pipes, and drove the acquisition of products such as Flickr and MyBlogLog. Bradley holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Michigan, and a master's degree from the MIT Media Lab |
Matt MullenwegFounder at Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress.com, Akismet, Gravatar, bbPress, IntenseDebate, BuddyPress, and more to come. Matt has been named one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. |
[ Tweet This ] Ricardo Baeza-YatesRicardo Baeza-Yates is VP of Research for Europe and Latin America, leading the Yahoo! Research labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile, and also supervising the lab in Haifa, Israel. Until 2005 he was the director of the Center for Web Research at the Department of Computer Science of the Engineering School of the University of Chile; and ICREA Professor and founder of the Web Research Group at the Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies of Univ. Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. His research interests includes algorithms and data structures, information retrieval, web mining, text and multimedia databases, software and database visualization, and user interfaces. |
Eric A. MeyerA noted CSS and HTML expert who has written several books on CSS (including "Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide" for O'Reilly and Associates), founded the css-discuss mailing list, maintained CSS support charts, and presented at a wide variety of conferences. Eric can talk for hours about web standards, standards-oriented design, standards-based site optimization, CSS, and HTML and is also familiar with XML, XSLT, JavaScript, and related technologies. |
[ Reply to @ajkeen ] Andrew KeenThe author of "The Cult of the Amateur" who jokingly describes himself as a "failed dotcom entrepreneur" and "The Anti-Christ of Silicon Valley". His attack on the culture of the web is framed with the confidence and knowledge that befits a man who was, in a past life, an enthusiastic Silicon Valley disciple. His major concern is that the Web 2 is wreaking cultural and economic havoc. Keen argues that, thanks largely to the amateur ethos that is so prevalent on the internet, expertise and, therefore, knowledge, wisdom and culture are fast being eroded. |
[ Reply to @sacca ] Chris SaccaChristopher Sacca is a venture investor, private equity principal, and company advisor focusing on consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology start-ups. |
[ Tweet This ] Michael J. BrownAn architectural theorist and practitioner, Michael Brown divides his time between writing, lecturing and
executing landmark buildings. He studied physics and architecture at UC Berkeley, graduating with highest
honors in 1999. During his subsequent tenure at Studio Daniel Libeskind, he directed the design and
construction of several award-winning cultural buildings and had a lead role in the World Trade Center
"Ground Zero" competition, later heading the Masterplan Memorial/Cultural Team.
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[ Tweet This ] Lucas GonzeLucas Gonze of FreshHotRadio.com founded Webjay, was the lead author of XSPF, created Yahoo! Media Player, was a Director of Product Management at Yahoo! Music, helped found CC Mixter and has contributed to numerous open-source projects. Should we say more.. He is a frontrunner of web music.
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[ Tweet This ] Alexander LjungAlexander Ljung is a young entrepreneur born in the UK, raised in Sweden & now living & working in Berlin. he is the co-founder of SoundCloud, a music service in 'the cloud' and an ex-author, ex-sounddesigner, ex-business adviser and current-hobby-hacker. |
[ Tweet This ] Jeff CoeJeff Coe, director Sevenload international, can be called a new media and digital industry veteran. He still earns his stripes shaping the digital industry and in particular the online video industry. Clicking up more Frequent Flyer points than most pilots, Jeff has been responsible for rolling out multiple wireless and online initiatives within content delivery and monetization globally.
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[ Tweet This ] Joe TrainorJoe Trainor is senior executive at Level 3. He is the European CDN services guru. Trainor has dedicated his career to driving video across IP. He has a unique perspective on the trends and commercial future of video online.
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[ Tweet This ] Ian ClearyIan Cleary is the wholesale Internet access dude at TeliaSonera INternational Carrier. With more than a decade experience in the wholesale Internet market, he is a recognised and popular speaker on diverse subjects from social developments of the Internet to the impact of engineering advances in the IP backbone. Ian will share thoughts about the role of the IP carrier in supporting Internet business through this exciting period of legislative, cultural and economic change. |
[ Tweet This ] Steve JangSteve is an entrepreneur, builder, and technologist. Most recently, he was a business co-founder and CMO at imeem, where he helped envision, design and build the imeem social music service and is used today by over 120 million people each month worldwide. Prior to imeem, he worked in product development and business roles at EMI Music's D3 unit, XUMA, WR Hambrecht, and Salon.com.
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Moderators
The Next Web Conference 2009 will be moderated by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten and Hermione Way
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We want you on stage... Pecha Kucha style
 We have 4 slots for The Next Web Attendees with a great storyPecha Kucha is a widely known energetic presentation style, where you present your story in 20 slides and each slide takes 20 seconds. Do you want to present your vision of the web for the audience? That is possible, but we're very strict. The rules are simple: - No company pitches (not even on your slides) - It has to be a generic topic about the future of the web - You have to have a ticket for The Next Web Conference - You have to sign up and we want to see your presentation before the conference - We determine which 6 people will give a Pecha Kucha presentation |
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Pitch your vision for the future of the web in 5 Tweets
Our attention span is getting shorter and shorter. The gift of pitching is getting more and more important. Do you have an extraordinary story or vision you'd like to share with the crowd? Send 5 tweets (permalinks) to patrick@thenextweb.com or @patrick and we might tell your story on main stage.
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